The Approval Castle of the Anjou Dukes :

In 1360 a brother of the King de France Charles V becomes Duke of Anjou, it is the second Capetian dynasty which gives rise to a series of cultivated Dukes. The Castle profits then from many transformations which make it become a residence of approval. It is at this period that Louis I of Anjou makes carry out the Tapestry of the Apocalypse to decorate the large rooms with the castle. At the beginning of XVth century Yolanda d' Aragon, the woman of the Duke of Anjou Louis II, frequently remained with the castle and it is there that was born their son, King Rene, in 1407.
At that time the castle has two courses, a place of weapons vis-à-vis the entry of the castle and an interior court limited by the vault Ste Genevieve and the Lord in the apartments which gave on Maine. One penetrates in this second court by Châtelet. That was built at the end of XVth century like reveals it well its pace pre Rebirth (photo against). In 1429, in full One hundred Year old War, the castle is maintained in state by Yolande d' Aragon which wants to be able to be defended against an English attack. In 1443 the Duke of Somerset arrived at the accesses of Angers but did not attack the Castle. The completed War, King Rene made carry out many improvements and embellishments in the castle: gardens, houses, galleries. It makes pass the whole of a military situation of fortress to that of residence of approval. In XVth century King Rene will do of Angers one of the intellectual centres of Europe, this will continue in XVIth century with the Joachim Poet of Belay, the Lawyer John Bodin and well of others still.